I can see why fans don’t like to watch pro basketball. I don’t, either. It’s not exciting.
LARRY BIRDDon’t let winning make you soft. Don’t let losing make you quit. Don’t let your teammates down in any situation.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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The more you win, the better you’re gonna get. It grows on itself.
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Guys like Larry Bird — he played so hard, he wants everybody else to play hard. That’s not unreasonable. Any coach would want that and demand that.
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Before every game I used to go out and shot the same shots over and over and over. In the summer time I spent a lot of time just shooting. So really it just came natural.
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Whether it’s a tie game or down by 1 or up by five, it was always the same shot. So I always felt comfortable with the ball in my hands because it was in there a million times before.
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I don’t know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.
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It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.
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Eminem. My son was listening to that and I was like, “What is that junk?” Then I started listening and I thought, You know, that kid is pretty good. It’s the storytelling.
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Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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It’s been a journey, the NBA. It’s taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
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I like being by myself.
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I think it’s good for a fan base because as we all know the majority of the fans are white America. And if you just had a couple of white guys in there, you might get them a little excited.
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When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, ’cause that was the best game. And these guys, they’d let me play. And they were black guys.
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Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective.
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Anytime you’ve got an opportunity to play for your country and win a gold medal,
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